Dr. Thomas Spyrou is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Product and Systems Design Engineering, University of the Aegean. He is Technical Director of Aegean Net, the network linking the distributed campus of the Aegean University, as well as providing Internet Services to other educationa! l communities of the Aegean (e.g schools and training centres) through an advanced and modern high speed network. In addition, he is an executive member of GUnet Technical Committee; of the GRnet (Greek Research and Technology Network) Technical Committee; and of the Technical Committee of the EDUnet, the Greek Secondary Educational Network.
His main interest is to research and to apply systems theories and approaches to real-world scenarios, especially in the case of Information Systems for Human Activity Systems. He has directed and participated in a number of projects both funded nationally, and by the European Union. He has published in scientific journals and participated in national and international conferences, in the areas of information systems design, holistic systems design, artificial intelligence, decision support systems, intelligent tutoring systems, simulation and security.
Darzentas, John, Arnellos, Argyris, Darzentas, Jenny, Koutsabasis, Panayiotis, Spyrou, Thomas, Viorres, Nikos, Vlachogiannis, Evangelos, Velasco, Carlos, Mohamad, Yehya, Abascal, Julio, Tomas-Guerra, Jorge and Arrue-Recondo, Myriam (2003): IRIS: Implementing an Open Environment supporting Inclusive Design of Internet Applications. In: Proceedings of IFIP INTERACT03: Human-Computer Interaction 2003, Zurich, Switzerland. p. 749.
Koutsabasis, Panayiotis,, Darzentas, Jenny S., Spyrou, Thomas, Lambrinoudakis, Kostas and Darzentas, John (2000): Aiding Designers to Design for All: The IRIS Approach. In: Emiliani, Pier Luigi and Stephanidis, Constantine (eds.) Proceedings of the 6th ERCIM Workshop on 'User Interfaces for All' October 25-26, 2000, Florence, Italy. p. 3. Available online
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